Henry Edmondson

Henry T. Edmondson III is Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at the Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Besides Dewey, he has written a number of articles and books on Jefferson, Shakespeare, and Flannery O'Connor, including the recently published Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism, and John Dewey and the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools has Corrupted Teaching and Learning,ISI Books.

In Washington, preparations are in progress for the re-authorization of the No Child Left Behind Act. For those who weren't aware that the underclass suffers the most in American public education, the NCLB has laid bare the troubling gaps in student achievement among racial and socioeconomic groups.

This October, the population of the U.S. reached 300 million. Even more, it’s estimated we will top 400 million by the middle of the century. The reaction this benchmark has not been as hysterical as some expected, though there has been hand-wringing over...

One of the many useful and important studies issued in recent years by the Fordham Institute is Cheri Yeke's monograph, Mayhem in the Middle: How Middle School's Have Failed America and How to Make Them Work.

Not only is it useful but fashionable as well. The Washington Post reports that commas have made a comeback! This is, without a doubt, a welcome fashion statement as well dressed paragraphs have been hard to find.

To what extent, and in what manner, did the 2006 mid-term elections affect education policy and practice in this country? The answer to that question lies in part with the answer to another question, namely, is education policy still largely local or has it been nationalized?

A report, issued by the non-partisan “Education Schools Project,” alleges that most education schools are engaged in a "pursuit of irrelevance," with curricula in disarray and faculty disconnected from classrooms and colleagues.